The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-21


visiting his brother, the Rev. Mr.. Cleye.
land, at Alder Greek, small village in
New: York State. He will visit his old
home, Fayetteville, before returning to
Washington, next Wednesday. Mrs.
3Cleyeland's 3 eye continues to be sore, and
the president himself is not well.
N i. Donaldson, of this county, has
definitely decided to bea candidate before
the next Legislature for Commissioner of
Agriculture. It is yet too early to say
more than that Mr.. d Donaldson, in seeking:
the qualification Of his honorable ambi.
.tion, will have Greenville county, where
he is best known, behind him as one
man. He has therare advantage Of be-.
ing a practical and successful farmer and
;al practical and successful Legislator,
fact which gives him unexcelled qualif.
cations for success in the Office he asks.-
Greenuile Msaos.
The friends of Bishop Taylor's
African missions, which are not support
ed By any missionary society, havei in the
past eighteen months contributed nearly
SS45, 600 to maintain them, besides supply
ing s24, 600 to Guild the Bishops steel
Congo steamer, which has cost $50, ,00O..
Many of the stations in Angola are now
raising much of their food supplies, and
are thus largely self supporting. Seven
Z missionaries have died; but seventy
remain in active service. This does not
include the children, of whom consid'
esable number are with their parents.
Bishop Tsylor;i is supposed to have Joined
in Liberia the last party that left this
oolntry, and to bewith them now on the
Congo which they will leave before long
TO travel to the new Baluba country.
correspondent of the Greenville
Neps; writing from Pickens @. H., under
date Of the 18th inst, says: Last We'd
nesday, the 18th inst, while Meredith
Mansel5 colored, who lives near Pump
kintown, this county, was at dinner with
his family, bolt of lightning struck his
house and in. q second Mansell and one
child seven or eightyears old was dead;
The bolt had passed through the top of
the house, shattering some of the rafters
andistrnck Mansell and his child, killing
them instantly, and his wife and another
childswere terribly shocked and cut and
bruised by splinlers from the rafters. 1t
isthought his wife and child will recover,
although they are badly wounded. Two
more of his children were shocked but
escaped without any serious damage.
A. call has been issued for Prohi-
biton State convention, to be held in
Louisiana next August, ending as fol-
lows: Tin conclusion we desire to state
merely that this is wave of that nom
partisan prohibition movement that is
stirring SO nightly in every Southern
State strictly within the lines of present
political organizations, and which aims
to draw to itself all persons of every
patty, creed, sex, and race who can see
no good reason why the normal rate Of
taxation should be increased fourfold in
order that a handful Of men should be
protected in ceiling poison to the rest,
and who propose to make this "a Gov
ernment of the people, for the people,
and by the people, instead Of in the lam;
gnage Of Canon Wilberforce, "a Govern
ment Of the whiskey traffic, for the wbis.
key traffic, and by the whiskey traffic."
The July report of the national de-.
spartment of agriculture says: The status
of the cotton crop has not declined since,
the last report. In the Southeast there
is a slight reduction, compensated BY q
small advance in the States West of the
Mississippi. The average is 81, which 10
four points higher than the average for
July in the previous ten years. 1t was
exceeded in 1873 and 1880 and nearly
equalled in July of 1881 and 1884, which
were years Of small production. There
hayeq been but two July records below
ninety since 1873. The States averages
are, ,aa follows: Virginia SO, North
Carolina so, South Carolina 81, Georgia
s6, Florida s8, Alabama s8, Mississippi
s9s, Louisiana SO, Texas SO, Arkansas 80,
Tennessee SO. Thecrop is under unus-
nslly clean cultivation, there being few
reports Of injury from excessive moisture
and few Of drought. Cotton worms are
indicated iii very few localities. @..a